Comet Detected in Nearby Solar System
October 21st 2011 00:48
Category: Comets
My Rendition of a storm of comets around a planet near a star, called Eta Corvi.
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The quest for other similar Solar System continues. As humans we have often wondered if there are other Solar Systems out there in the great beyond besides our own.
NASA’S Spitzer Space telescope has found strong evidence that distant Solar System located in star system Eta Corvi has been bombarded by icy comets of which a similar occurrence happened to our Solar System shortly after the formation of the planets. Early comets may
have contributed to forming life here on Earth. Comet bombardment was common in then infant Solar System.
Comets would have struck the Earth and Moon and most of the inner planets. The comet bombardment ceased some 3.8 billion years ago.
The Spitzer Space telescope has discovered a large formation of dust around a nearby bright star in the northern sky called Eta Corvi.
The findings strongly suggest that the dust forming around this distant Solar System is the remnants of an obliterated giant comet.
What we are now “seeing” is a simular re-enactment of what happened to our early Solar System eons ago. It is probable that Eta Corvi has or has had planets of various sizes and that a collision took place when a large comet collided with an Earth size planet shrouding the inner planets with dust.
What seems to be somewhat stranger than fiction is that our Solar system and the one Eta Corvi system have much in common.
According to the Spitzer's infrared detectors analysed the light spectra coming from the dust around Eta Corvi. The analysis found chemical fingerprints, including water ice, organic matter and rock, which indicate it originated from giant comet.
The chemical structure emitted by the dust around Eta Corvi contains similar properties to samples taken from the Alma-Ata Sitta meteorite, which fell to Earth in fragments across Sudan in 2008.
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The similarities between the meteorite and the comet fragments that were obliterated in the collision in Eta Corvi strongly suggest that our Solar System and Eta Corvi share a common origin.
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